Almost forgot about this!!!

Interesting, yes? Paula Wagner QUIT! from Holy Moly!

There was dancing in the streets (of Tom Cruise's mind) when Tom Cruise and business partner Paula Wagner crowned themselves heads of MGM movies. This came shortly after Tom was unceremoniously dropped by United Artists after the failure of 'Mission: Impossible III' and the fact that he was becoming a bit of an embarrassing liability and a figure of fun in the industry. Now at last they had their own movie company together with which to produce classics and blockbusters alike.

It didn't quite work out. Nobody knows why. Perhaps something to do with the fact that Tom is an increasing liability and even more of a figure of fun in the industry. Paula issued a sad statement.

"I've truly relished working with my longtime partner Tom Cruise to revitalize United Artists, and I am proud of all that we've accomplished in the past two years, reinvigorating the brand and developing such a strong slate of films."

Does anyone have any idea of what this strong 'slate' of films are? Maybe 'Valkyrie' the one where Tom plays a 'good Nazi', which is such a strong film that it has been sitting in a warehouse unreleased for a year or so?

"As much as I've enjoyed my time as an executive, I have longed to return to my true love, which is making movies, so that's what I've decided to do"

Instead of listening to tales of intergalactic warlords thrown into the volcanoes of an otherwise insignificant planet called... Earth.

To be fair to Paula, she's done her fair share of duty on the Good Ship Cruise and it's to her credit that she's one of the last ones to leave this sinking, rusting vessel's career.

Next week: Katie Holmes is nervously eyeing the lifebelts and wondering if she'll burst into flames when she hits the water, now that she is an android.

Suri

Yes, she is adorable, but I've been waiting for her to get old enough to compare facial features with her parents. I still wonder why Suri was picked....why not Rose? What is wrong with Rose as a name?

I've always found it fascinating to compare a child's features with mom and dad's, you can see some of both in the child, usually. But Suri's features make me curious:



I can see Katie in her but I'm having a hard time seeing Tom's genetic influence. Coincidence? What do you think?


yes? no?

Maybe we can all agree that she looks like the renegade child/clone of Bjork:

I Still Think $citard Tom is Crazy

from gossip rocks, who bothered to piece this together, so I didn't have to...Also I have no plans to bother with seeing Mission Impossible 4:

Tom Cruise to Oprah:
"I Have Been Misunderstood"
Friday May 2, 2008

Harpo Productions, Inc.
In the first part of his interview with Oprah Winfrey (airing Friday), Tom Cruise reveals that he jumped on her couch in 2005 because he was so in love with Katie Holmes and couldn't contain himself.

Winfrey confessed that the incident caught her by surprise.

"When we finished that show with you jumping up on the sofa, I was like, 'Wow. What was that?'" she tells him in an interview in his Telluride, Colo., home. "I had no idea it was going to turn into an international brouhaha, as I'm sure you did not either."

She even confesses, "I was a little nervous coming up this morning, I have to admit, because you and I have not sat down for a real conversation since the sofa incident."

Cruise tells Winfrey, "I just felt that way, and I feel that way about her.

"I can't even articulate it, to be honest," he adds. "That feeling, that connection. Just who she is and what she means to me."

Of the negative response to his couch jumping, Cruise says, "It just kind of kept going.

"Those things I kind of go, 'You just have to take in stride.' It just kind of became a confluence of things."

ON ATTACKING MATT LAUER

He also opened up about his 2005 interview with Matt Lauer (Cruise attacked the anchor, calling him "glib" during a chat about psychiatry and the use of anti-depressant drugs).

"I was feeling pressed in the interview with Matt Lauer," Cruise says. "For me, my issue was really about child drugging. It's not like it is today, like people are really kind of openly talking about this."

(Cruise now says of medicating children, "I think the parent should be able to and should make that decision.")

ON SLAMMING BROOKE SHIELDS

He says his comments on post-partum depression "came out wrong." (He slammed Brooke Shields in the same 2005 interview for taking Paxil to treat post-partum depression following the birth of her daughter Rowan.)

"What I regret is even discussing Brooke in any way," Cruise says.

He says the incident has brought the two of them "closer" (Shields attended his 2006 wedding to Holmes.)

ON BEING A SCIENTOLOGIST

Cruise dodges Winfrey's question about whether he feels people negatively target him because of his Scientology involvement.

"It's a minority religion, and I think that sometimes people misinterpret [it]," he says. "I think the best thing is for people to read about it themselves. I believe people have the right to choose what they believe in.

"The code of Scientologists says you respect the religious beliefs of others," Cruise adds. "That's part of being a Scientologist, and that's who I am as a person."

In January, videos leaked online of Cruise at Scientology events discussing the religion. He says the footage "was stolen. I was receiving an award that evening for global literacy. It was a very private moment. I'm actually talking to my congregation."

"It's [taken] totally out of context," he adds.

ON KEEPING SURI HIDDEN FOR SO LONG

Lots of rumors spread about their daughter, Suri, because the couple kept her hidden after she was born. Some blogs speculated that the child was deformed. That talk, Cruise says, was "hard to hear.

"We just want to have our baby, have the kids and everyone get to know Suri, get the family up here and just chill and have that time that you never get back," he explains. "You don't ever get those moments back."

On waiting three months to publish her photo in Vanity Fair in 2006, Cruise says, "Kate and I didn't feel any need to [rush] it. We said, 'Why? It's our family.' We just were on Suri time."

ON HIS MARRIAGE WITH HOLMES BEING FAKE

"That's laughable to me," Cruise says. 'You just know that they're trying to sell it and spin it."

He says Holmes' Catholic family has welcomed him.

"They're amazing. I love them," Cruise says. "You see why Kate is such an amazing woman -- incredible integrity and strength. They're family."

ON RUMORS THAT HE HAS PUSHED NICOLE KIDMAN OUT OF THEIR KIDS' LIVES

"No, that's ridiculous," he says. "We share custody. That's what it is."


ON HIS REPUTATION

"Listen I, I feel like definitely things have been misunderstood, and there are things I could have done better," Cruise admits. "But then there's also that world where you go, 'Oh, it's been spun to such an extent that ... that's a truth also.'

He continues, "Knowing when and where to communicate, I think that's important.

"A lot of times I was nervous giving interviews. Or I wasn't sometimes as comfortable about things. And I realized that it's okay.

"There's stuff you have to just let go," Cruise adds. "I just have to do the best I can."

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*I don't buy it, he's still so far removed from reality that he has no clue. Sad, really*